Be persistent. Establishing yourself in this field could easily take years. Rarely will any composer get that one "big break." More often,… — John Keltonic Copy Share Image
Mozart in his music was probably the most reasonable of the world's great composers. It is the happy balance between flight and… — Aaron Copland Copy Share Image
My main concern is if this composer has been made aware of the fact that I've come clean in all of my… — Aileen Wuornos Copy Share Image
I think the purpose of a piece of music is significant when it actually lives in somebody else. A composer puts down… — Yo-Yo Ma Copy Share Image
I was starting a group of musicians and we had a group of young composers in Finland back in the '70s, and… — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
I'd love to do a musical actually. My background is in music. I have a bachelors in music. I thought that I… — Ivan Reitman Copy Share Image
The composers could no longer direct all performances in person, and so the responsibility of interpreting their works in the spirit in… — Anton Seidl Copy Share Image
I cannot listen to Beethoven or Mahler or Chopin or Bach when I write because those composers require you stop what you… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
It's hard to decide how to match words to music. It's not like it's twice the work. It's always difficult for me… — Ayumi Hamasaki Copy Share Image
I have often read critical pieces where the critic said that what the composer was trying to do didn't come off. I… — Ornette Coleman Copy Share Image
Modern European composers...have very largely received their stimulus, their rhythms and impulses from Machine Age America. They have a much older tradition… — George Gershwin Copy Share Image
Chess problems demand from the composer the same virtues that characterize all worthwhile art: originality, invention, conciseness, harmony, complexity, and splendid insincerity — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Magicians are typically introverted; they don't tend to work with others, but I work with software programmers, composers, designers, so it's a… — Marco Tempest Copy Share Image
I always hankered to be a composer - I was mad about music, though I never studied seriously, and can't read a… — Conrad Aiken Copy Share Image
If you're the sort of person that likes a job where once you know what you're doing you can keep doing what… — Henry Jackman Copy Share Image
My first husband, John Barry, was a composer. I couldn't believe that this sophisticated, talented genius chose me and not any of… — Jane Birkin Copy Share Image
We've always said we're a HEAVY METAL band. We've kinda branched out here and there - we've done a rap thing, we've… — Charlie Benante Copy Share Image
The great opera composers were so good at their job, that the whole genre came to be built around the concept of… — Stewart Copeland Copy Share Image
I just scribbled away and eventually a C-major chord was there. I didn't ever decide I was going to be a composer.… — Richard Rodney Bennett Copy Share Image
Our interpretations through the years and generations have always changed, but the emotions, ideas, and the thoughts of the composers are still… — David Finckel Copy Share Image
I grew up on Bach and Beethoven and now I'm listening to more modern composers who I can't even name. But since… — A. R. Rahman Copy Share Image
Every philharmonic orchestra merely interprets the composer. My goal was to create new music by that composer. In doing so, I wanted… — Wolfgang Beltracchi Copy Share Image
